And since, ere my enterprise reached its goal, his death outran it; I entreat thee chiefly, Andrew, who wast chosen by a most wholesome and accordant vote to be successor in the same office and to headship of spiritual things, to direct and inspire my theme; that I may baulk by the defence of so great an advocate that spiteful detraction which ever reviles what is most conspicuous.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

[287] Though this consciousness, that I think it , need not be at every moment explicitly realized, it is always capable of being realized.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Thomas Mace says, respecting the lute, "the air-wood is absolutely the best, and next to that our English maple."— Engel ("Researches into the Early History of the Violin Family").
— from The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators by George Hart

In the present edition, which is based on the Italian translation, I have made many further corrections and changes of arrangement of the original matter; I have rewritten a considerable portion of the work, and have made, in the text and in notes, numerous and important additions, founded partly on observations of my own, partly on those of other students of Physical Geography, and though my general conclusions remain substantially the same as those I first announced, yet I think I may claim to have given greater completeness and a more consequent and logical form to the whole argument Since the publication of the original edition, Mr. Elisee Reclus, in the second volume of his admirable work, La Terre (Paris, 1868), lately made accessible to English-reading students, has treated, in a general way, the subject I have undertaken to discuss.
— from The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

“Oh,” said Gudrun, “if I can have the studio and work there, I can earn money enough, really I can.” “Well,” he said, pleased to be the benefactor, “we can see about all that.
— from Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Unde nihil est aliud ipsam secundum essentiam augeri, quam eam magis inesse subjecto, quod est magis eam radicari in subjecto.
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

He turned away with a feeling of relief, however, for this gossip with the Huguenot maid would no doubt interest her, give new direction to her warm sympathies, which if roused in one thing were ever more easily roused in others.
— from Michel and Angele [A Ladder of Swords] — Complete by Gilbert Parker

And the two elderly men, each red in the face as a "bubbly jock," both spluttering and almost speechless with rage, glared at each other, murder in their eyes.
— from Stories of the Border Marches by Jean Lang

Perhaps, if I dissever and explain the word, it may enable even my English readers in some degree to approach a successful attempt at its pronunciation.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

IMG Our law code would, were its injunctions only carried out in private life, effect most extraordinary reformations in our customs and habits.
— from Nuts and Nutcrackers by Charles James Lever